The arrival of an important number of “inmigrant students” just arrived, especially during the last few years, it has brought about an important change in the daily life of the educative centers of Catalonia. This has supposed a challenge for all the educative community. Within this reality, the present research is focused on trainning needs of the teaching staff of obligatory Secondary Education . More precesely, it is centred in the needs derived from the attention to the “inmigrant students just arrived”. The teaching staff of this educative stage has to give attention to all the students of our country, including the “inmigrant students just arrived”, giving answer to their needs and interests. This challenge has generated some questions : which are the correct or most suitable frames that integrate and include all the students and promote a whole coexistent? What is going on at ESO’s Centres as regards the attention of inmigrant students just arrived? Which are the trainnig needs that ESO’s teaching staff have, in regard to taking care of inmigrant students just arrived? Which is the fundamental knowledge and the competencies that novel secondary teachers needs in order to be able to fullfil inmigrant students educative needs? Which are the trainning modalities that ESO teachers consider more suitable to acquire those knowledges and competences? Bearing in mind this questions we construct the following research objectives: - To pick up and to analyze the felt trainning needs expressed by the ESO teaching staff of the public network of Catalonia in relation to the educative attention and the work with the inmigrant students just arrived. -To detect the teacher professional competences that they emphasize like the most required to provide a suitable attention to the immigrant students, especially the just arrived ones. -To guide and to give criteria, from the collected data, to plan the permanent training modalities of the ESO teaching staff in regard to the educative needs of inmigrant students just arrived. In order to develop this research we have centered the theoretical frame of the investigation in two nuclear subjects: the teaching staff trainning of Obligatory Secondary Education; and the adolescents just arrived and the obligatory education.

We start on the premise that the competences and the training needs from the ESO teachers are arisen from the educative challenges that the divesity attention of just arrived inmigrant student raised. This way to conceive the study object raises the necessity to approach it from the qualitative paradigm. Within this paradigm, we have chosen to develop a study of multiple cases of an interpretative character. The research has gone through different phases. Although it has not had a strictly linear character, we can consider that, in the first place we have concentrated in the planning and the conceptual framework. In the second phase we have centred at the design of the research and the field work that has consisted of: documentary analysis, 130 participant questionnaires, 6 observations, 12 in depth interviews and 5 discussion groups. Finally, we have analyzed and processed the data and elaborated the conclusions.

A map of secondary education teaching staff competences has been developed to give the proper attention to “just arrived inmigrant students”. The competential scopes for the educative attention of the “just arrived inmigrant student” that are infered from this reasearch are: 1) To manage a diverse classroom didactically, 2) To incorporate internal and external support into the classroom, 3) To adapt the curriculum, 4) To impel center organizational aspects that prioritize the attention to the diversity, 5) To foment an institutional point of view, and 6) To cooperate within the educative and social environment. In addition, the research has contributed with some proposals of: -teacher trainning resources in relation to the subject of the educative attention of immigrants students and approaches for the curricular modification of the plans of initial and permanent teaching staff trainning.